The local top stories will also be at the top of the search results and the rankings take in account local publications "to promote local sources for each story."

Google also announced its working to improve the local search algorithms:

"We work hard to improve our algorithm, including its ability to understand the relevant locations for a news story and the location of the source that reports a story. We also train our algorithm to detect when a news article is reporting about a particular location and when it's not. The city of Paris (also a world celebrity) has proven particularly challenging in this respect."